Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Well done is better than well said.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Fortune befriends the bold.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

God helps those who help themselves.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.